Lari Laine Bio
Lari Laine is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Corinne Elaine Kegley on April 13, 1937, in Brentwood, California, she has also been credited as Corinne Cole. Playboy named her its May 1958 Playmate at 21. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Laine has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 38-21-34.
By the time Playboy finally persuaded Lari Laine to pose, she was anything but a newcomer to modeling. She had studied journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, then found herself pulled toward pageants and professional photography after finishing as first runner-up in the Miss USA competition. Laine later recalled that she had already appeared on 29 national magazine covers when photographer Ron Vogel approached her on Playboy’s behalf. The magazine had reportedly been pursuing her for several years; Vogel finally convinced her that the session could benefit both of their careers.
The resulting centerfold was photographed by Vogel at Knollwood Country Club in Granada Hills, with tennis courts, the swimming pool and the polished atmosphere of the private club supplying the setting. For Laine, however, Playboy represented something closer to a finale than a beginning. She later said that whereas many women used the magazine to launch modeling careers, she essentially stopped modeling afterward because she felt she had reached the top of that particular profession.
The name Lari Laine was itself temporary. Known professionally as Corinne Cole, she reportedly adopted the pseudonym for Playboy because her father, an attorney, was considering a run for Congress and she did not want the appearance to complicate his political plans. The alias did not prevent her from appearing elsewhere in entertainment; in 1958 she guest-starred on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, already showing signs that acting would become the more durable part of her public career.
As Corinne Cole, she accumulated screen work through the 1960s, including Murderers' Row, The Swinger and The Party, alongside television appearances such as Cain’s Hundred. Her professional life had therefore shifted neatly from fashion and magazine covers into film and television—the Hollywood direction Playboy’s original profile only hinted at.
Her later life also kept her connected to the entertainment world. In 1990 she married director George Sidney, with whom she had earlier worked on The Swinger, and they remained together until his death in 2002. What makes Laine’s Playboy chapter distinctive is its position in the middle of a larger career: not a discovery, but a deliberate high point in an already successful modeling run before Corinne Cole moved on to acting and left the Lari Laine name largely behind.
